Researchers discovered that fur seals that have returned onshore after foraging trips increase their heart rate – a measure ...

When Australian fur seals get back to land they speed up their heart to clear waste products and replenish oxygen stores.

Seals spend most of their time underwater but rarely do they drown. A new study in the journal Science reveals the unusual way that these diving mammals can tell when they would run out of oxygen. NPR ...

Climate change is scary news for seals in many more ways than one. Besides degrading and eliminating necessary sea-ice habitat, warming depletes their prey, makes them more vulnerable to predators and ...